Hi My *guess* would be that you would need to setup a situation that favored the lock. Simple outflow clocks probably aren't going to lock. Any of the escarpment designs have the potential to lock.
Past that, sounds like a good reason to build up some on a flimsy shelf and see what happens. Bob -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of jimlux Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 9:27 AM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] synchronizing a large number of weaklycoupled oscillators Bob Camp wrote: > Hi > > The tendency of clocks to self synchronize dates back at least to the > days of pendulum clocks. It may date to the era of water clocks, but > if so it's undocumented. It has been observed on a wide range of > modern clock designs. If you look into "injection locking" you'll get > a pretty good picture of what's going on. > > Oooh. Clepsydra (is that also the plural?).. one of my favorite topics.. It never occurred to me that they might couple, although almost every other mechanical clock does. What would the mechanism be? How could one set up an experiment? (hey, it's getting to be summertime, and my kids need projects that might get them wet) _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
